Tedx Bath
botanical inks
I’m still fluttering with all the excitement and nerves of having just stepped of the stage at Tedx Bath, delivering my talk on soil-to-soil textiles and the importance and beauty of natural dyes..!!
My talk is something I have been thinking about, writing, re-working and memorising for such a long time now..
I actually was approached by Tedx Bath 2 years ago with the invitation to speak at their 2020 event.
Of course, the event couldn’t go ahead, so it’s been on the back burner for a very long time now, and only a couple of months back we got the go ahead for the live in person event in Bath.
It wasn’t clear if we would definitely be able to do it, so it was created as a semi in-person and semi-online event, to cover all bases as who knows what to expect these days!
I’ve spent most of the past couple weeks revising my script while hiking through local natural spaces around Bristol, Bath and the Mendips, pacing and repeating my lines to trees and sheep in the hills and probably looking quite strange to dog walkers along the local river path..!
I was invited to Bath Spa University to the their incredible TV studio to film a pre-record of the talk, in case the live event couldn’t go ahead, to practise and also to prepare the translators and help them get used to my voice as the talk is being translated into Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin, Portuguese and French.
Below is the full line-up of speaks who took part in the event, which took place over two nights on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th November ‘21.
I had the pleasure of watching lovely Dr Andy Georgiou and incredible Kate Raworth before me - A very hard act to follow!!
And then the charming Ewandro Magalhaes, brilliant Sushma Jansari, curator at the British Museum and gorgeous Eddie Ilic from Street Cuts. Who were all completely amazing and fascinating to hearing speak their stories. I highly recommend listening to them all if you can!
The live recordings are now being edited and will be ready to release in a couple of weeks, and I will let you know right away when my talk is up on Youtube to watch…I’m so looking forward to seeing it and sharing it with you!! :))) xxx
